On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 06:09:26 PM Mike Latimer wrote:
However, as mentioned in the bug, this parameter is likely no longer required. Unless there is a use-case where this setting is required, it seems like a good idea to remove it completely (which should work in either libvirt or direct mode), rather than recommend the workaround.
As much as I hate to reply to myself... I just did some additional testing and realized that if 'iface:ide' is removed, the disks could be inaccessible in environments that don't have virtio_scsi (in the guestfs environment). In other words, with just ata_piix, the 'iface:ide' might be required. Do we know if there are any environments which are commonly missing the virtio stack? (If the answer is not much, I'd still rather drop iface:ide, and work with both backend types (through virtio_scsi). -Mike